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Understaffed hospitals are already coping with increased patient demand heading into the holidays. They have few options to expand if omicron creates a huge new wave of COVID patients. -
More than 2.42 million San Diegans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, representing roughly 76.9% of eligible residents. -
A staffer who on Friday flew aboard Air Force One with the president tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday, the White House said. -
With coronavirus cases surging nationwide, locals are hitting COVID testing sites ahead of their holiday travels. -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention numbers show nearly a six-fold increase in the proportion of infections in only one week. -
Underscoring its high transmissibility, in a week, omicron went from a 12.6% share of new COVID infections in the U.S. to a dominant 73.2%, according to the CDC's latest estimates. -
Vaccines in the U.S. and around the world do not offer as much protection against omicron as they have against previous versions of the coronavirus. However, vaccines still help — a lot. -
The judge said the district's mandate, which does not permit religious or personal belief exemptions, contradicts state law because implementing such mandates without exemptions can only be imposed by the state legislature. -
The amount of COVID-19 virus detected in wastewater has predicted the region's COVID-19 caseload up to three weeks ahead of clinical diagnostic reports. -
European nations have implemented a wave of new restrictions as case numbers rise. And Israel has added the U.S. and Canada to its "red list" of countries that citizens are barred from traveling to.
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